Sunday, February 22, 2009

Visible Wordplay: One Boy by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

with a child's head and shoulders visible through a die-cut opening in the right-hand page. Turning the page, however, we see the ONE visible through the opening as part of a new caption,

ALL ALONE

But although we see the boy, with his backpack of art supplies, seated alone in the middle of three rows of chairs, this kid is definitely NOT alone. His mind is alive with images, which we see in the following pages which combine words, parts of those words, and parts of full-page images glimpsed through the die-cut openings.

TWO SEALS

AT THE SEA

THREE APES

BIG ESCAPE

FOUR MONKEYS

HOLD THE KEY....

And as we work our way through the counting order up ten, we see

TEN ANTS

IN YOUR PANTS. ONE BOY

ALL DONE!

And as the boy exits page right, we see behind him that he has indeed not been alone, but in the good company of his ten paintings--of seals, apes, monkeys, mice, cars, candles and a birthday cake, brooms, and seeds sprouting into flowers, all neatly taped to the wall behind him.

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